You lie!
Posted on 04/04/2014 6:26:53 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
Under the heading “Brendan Eich steps down as CEO,” Mozilla has posted the following statement in the name of executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker. Eich has “stepped down” from his position at Mozilla days after his appointment, following the revelation that he contributed $1,000 to the campaign supporting the passage of Prop 8 in California six years ago. The Wall Street Journal covers the story here.
Baker’s statement is must reading, though it requires some translation. It is not exactly straightforward. Using the mandatory shibboleths, the statement refers to a corporate culture of “diversity and inclusiveness.” If you’ve read 1984, you can probably handle the translation without help from me:
Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we haven’t stayed true to ourselves.
We didn’t act like you’d expect Mozilla to act. We didn’t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We’re sorry. We must do better.
Brendan Eich has chosen to step down from his role as CEO. He’s made this decision for Mozilla and our community.
Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.
Our organizational culture reflects diversity and inclusiveness. We welcome contributions from everyone regardless of age, culture, ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, language, race, sexual orientation, geographical location and religious views. Mozilla supports equality for all.
We have employees with a wide diversity of views. Our culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions in public. This is meant to distinguish Mozilla from most organizations and hold us to a higher standard. But this time we failed to listen, to engage, and to be guided by our community.
While painful, the events of the last week show exactly why we need the web. So all of us can engage freely in the tough conversations we need to make the world better.
We need to put our focus back on protecting that Web. And doing so in a way that will make you proud to support Mozilla.
What’s next for Mozilla’s leadership is still being discussed. We want to be open about where we are in deciding the future of the organization and will have more information next week. However, our mission will always be to make the Web more open so that humanity is stronger, more inclusive and more just: that’s what it means to protect the open Web.
We will emerge from this with a renewed understanding and humility — our large, global, and diverse community is what makes Mozilla special, and what will help us fulfill our mission. We are stronger with you involved.
Thank you for sticking with us.
Mitchell Baker, Executive Chairwoman
Fast, very small memory requirements, and extremely difficult to crash.
Been awhile since I last installed Opera instead of simply upgrading to a newer version, but I think either the first time you ran it or the second time it asks you if you want to import bookmarks. Failing that;
Then, in Opera: [Settings][Import and Export][Import Firefox Bookmarks].
See post #62.
One can temporarily import bookmarks from FF to Chrome, or just export them to a JSON file. Then they are free to remove FF.
I am running Linux, with Opera 12.16 as the latest stable .deb available so I used that as the default example. The Firefox link is still valid, however; simply save the bookmarks in a single .html file and you can import that way.
Diversity and inclusiveness as long as you hold to our ruthlessly enforced standards of thougt. Differ in any manner from approved thought and you will be destroyed.
Have you read the “End-user license agreement and terms of service for Opera for desktop”? There seems to me to be some questionable language there, especially regarding third party software included, and and also “out of country” storage of your data.
This sounds like a spyware program to me.
"The source code modified by Opera is available for download at http://sourcecode.opera.com/gstreamer/."
Feel free to peruse it at your leisure, but since uncounted 'nix geeks and slashdotters have been doing so for at least fifteen years I think you can relax about any potential spyware being part of it.
Oh, and since they are based in Norway, that would probably explain why there might be some out of country links.
Feedback is at https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback
The feedback for today is close to 5,000 while the positive feedback is around 200. https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/
The rest of us don't have to buy into that!
Don’t know if you found an alternative yet, but on the advice of other freepers, I downloaded Pale Moon, it looks and works exactly like FF, and migration of FF profile is a breeze all bookmarks calender, all add-ons everything.
Check it out: http://www.palemoon.org/download-ng.shtml
If you download it Pale Moon will ask if you want to migrate IE favorites, I clicked do nothing, once you’ve completed download, you will need to download a FF migration tool, you will find it on the front page of PM, once you download that just follow instructions, very easy, now you may get a message download timed out, don’t worry about it, everything will be there when you open PM again.
It is not affiliated with FF, but you can’t tell the difference.
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